BKNIX Peering Forum and ThaiNOG Day 2019

After obtaining a Doctoral degree in France, I returned to teach electrical engineering at Chulalongkorn University for 28 years. I then became an Election Commissioner for 4 years and a Registrar for 2 years at the Asian Institute of Technology. Since then I have been working at Mahidol University on Peace Building especially in the Far South of Thailand. I also serve in many civil society organisations including the THNIC Foundation as its chairman.

Surasak Sanguanpong is currently an associate professor and a head of Applied Network Research Laboratory (ANRES) at the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University, in Bangkok. He also serves as the THNIC Board of Directors and Treasurer. Prior to this role he was the Vice President for the Information Technology of Kasetsart University. He comes from a technical research background with research experiences in computer networking such as Internet Security, Network Monitoring and Measurements and Applications for High Speed Networking.

Philip Smith has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s after catching the Internet bug in the mid 1980s while at University. He runs his own consulting company, PFS Internet Development.

Philip spends some of his time working for the Network Startup Resource Centre as a Senior Network Engineer and Training Coordinator, assisting with Network Operations Groups coordination, and providing network design assistance and training around the Pacific, South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

He previously worked at APNIC as Learning and Development Director, where his team's responsibilities ranged from Training, APNIC Conferences and Events, Network Operations Group support, Technical Programmes such as IPv6 Deployment, Internet Exchange Points, and Rootname Server deployments, and the Information Society Innovation Fund grants programme.

Before APNIC, he was a member of the Internet Infrastructure Group in CTO Consulting Engineering of Cisco Systems for more than thirteen years. He also served for 3 years on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (incorporated into UUNET, and now part of Verizon's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial ISP, where he was Head of Network Engineering. As is common with startups in a rapidly growing marketplace, Philip gained deep experience in all of the engineering roles in an ISP, from support engineer, network operations, engineering, and development, before assuming responsibility for the entire UK network operation. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and he helped establish the LINX Internet Exchange Point in London and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.

Over the last decade and a half, Philip has been actively involved in providing consultation and advice to ISPs primarily in the Asia Pacific region, but also to other providers around the world. He concentrates specifically on network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as configuration, scaling, and training. He has played a major role in training ISP engineers, co-founding the Cisco ISP/IXP Workshop programme, and providing ISP training and tutorials at many network operations events around the world, including NANOG, RIPE, APNIC, SANOG, MENOG, AfNOG, PacNOG and APRICOT conferences. His other key technology interests include IPv6, BGP, OSPF and IS-IS, and network performance and data analysis.

He has also been working to promote and develop the Internet in the entire Asia Pacific region and has been actively involved in bringing the Internet to some countries in the region. He also is actively involved in establishing Internet Exchange Points around the world, as well as advising on peering and inter-ISP relationships across the industry. He is Chair of the Board Directors of APIA (the Asia Pacific Internet Association), the organisation which organises and manages APRICOT, the region's annual ISP operations and technology conference and co-chair of APOPS (the region's ISP operational forum). Philip is also involved in the organisation committees of MENOG, SANOG and PacNOG, helps out with several country NOGs, and is a past chair and member of the NANOG Steering Committee (now NANOG Board).

Philip also has a particular research interest in the growth of the Internet and provides a detailed daily analysis of the IPv4 routing table, from an Asia Pacific perspective, to the general operator community worldwide.

Philip is a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. A native of Scotland, he lives in Brisbane, Australia.

He is now the head of government and industry relations at Ericsson

Jesada Sivaraks received the B.E. degrees, in Telecommunications Engineering from KMITL, Thailand in 1990. He graduated M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Working experience, he joined the military information department of Supreme Command Armed force in 1991-1994. In year 2001, he was the principal Engineer at Protura Wireless, Half Moon Bay, California with 3 patent pending at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). He involved various fields of wireless communication such as designing the antenna for mobile phone and setting the method of hand/head effect to mobile terminal.

He has joined to TOT as engineer of International Telecommunications. Also, he was one of the 3G Strategy Team in 2004-2007 and with the Wireless Business group at TOT. Now, he takes care of the business strategy of TOT’s Wireless business group. Moreover, he has been invited to be the special Guest speaker or instructor in various classes of Graduate students in many universities.

He was the Secretary to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission Vice Chairman. As the regulator role, he is member of variety sub commission such as the sub commission of preparation for 2.1GHz Spectrum auction, the sub commission of preparation for 1800MHz Spectrum, the sub commission of mobile spectrum roadmap, the sub commission of framework of Thailand satellite licensing, etc..

Matt is Edge Strategy Manager at Facebook responsible for the Asia Pacific region based in Hong Kong. In this role he looks after peering & caching relationships, building and maintaining long term partnerships with the networks in the region helping Facebook to make the world more open and connected :)

Before joining Facebook Matt was Senior Network Architect at Akamai and Peering Manager at Cable&Wireless Worldwide, with a long time focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Tashi has experience in IP and transmission network design, operation, and maintenance having worked as a transmission engineer and IP core network engineer for more than a decade. He has been involved in capacity development in the APNIC community by providing technical assistance and training in number of technical areas such as Routing & Switching, Network Architecture, IXP design and deployment, Network Security, IPv6 deployment, DNSSEC, and so on.

Tashi completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Electronics engineering from India, complemented by research studies in next generation networks from Japan and postgraduate studies in Network Systems from Australia.

Panita Pongpaibool is a senior researcher at NECTEC (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center), THAILAND. She led a research team that developed the IoT cloud platform, named NETPIE. NETPIE is widely adopted and has become a de facto platform for Thai education and maker communities. At the end of 2017, her research team incorporated a startup company, NEXPIE, dedicated to providing commercial IoT platform services. Panita is now an advisor of NEXPIE. In this talk she will explain the landscape of IoT platform, technical challenges and business opportunities.

Kohei Kitade joined NTT 2004 after graduate from Kobe university in Japan. Currently he works as a Senior Architect for Network Technology at NTT Communications. He has extensive experience in developing network services for service providers and enterprises as well. He is responsible for developing the Internet backbone and services of global and the domestic IP networks for NTT. Especially in Asia, he has developed some POPs and services. And he worked for lots of Academic network also.

Champika is the ICANN's Regional Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Engagement Manager for the Asia Pacific. He is part of ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) and SSR Teams and represents ICANN in Security, Technical, Law Enforcement and Capacity Building forums in the APAC region.

Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist and liaison roles at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. Champika started his career with IBM Corporation as a Systems Engineer and later worked in IT industry, academia, research, and training environments in the Asia Pacific. Champika received a number of excellence awards during his academic and professional careers and also served in various technical community groups and committees.

Secretary of the Working Group for lifelong learning.

Assistant Secretary the Working Group for integration and support the work of the Ministry of Digital Economy.

Secretary of the provide computer systems for government.

Secretary of the Executive Committee and provide computer systems of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.

Committee and Expert of the Executive Committee and provide computer systems of the Ministry of Interior.

Vice chairman of the Committee set detail the features computer systems and equipment for teaching, Fiscal year 2013.

Research Operations Manager
Brownien Lab (http://www.brownien_lab.cattelecom.com/index.php)
Research and Development Department
CAT Telecom PCL (headquarter)

Education:
Federal Armed Forces University, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Munich, Germany
- Dr. -Ing., Doctoral degrees in engineering
- Research Topic: Object Manipulation and Force Control by Using Tactile Sensors

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
- M. Eng., Computer Engineering
- Thesis Topic: Cooperation of Multiple Robot Arms By Kinematic-Coordinate Transformation Distribution
- Scholarship Donor: Royal Thai Government (RTG)

King Mongkut’s Institute Of Techonology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand
- B.Eng., Telecommunication Engineering
- Thesis Topic: G3 Facsimile Protocol Analyzer
- 1st Class Honors, Class Rank 1
- Scholarship Donor: first position in entrance exam.

Work Experiences:
- Intelligent Robot Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, University of Federal Armed Forces, Germany;
- Siemens Automotive Company, Germany; solutions and services for automotive production
- Dallmeier Electronic Company, Germany; image processing and recording, the CCTV monitoring field,
image transmission
- Brownien Lab, R&D Department, CAT Telecom PCL, Thailand

Research Interests
• Machine Vision
• SDR , FPGA , Wireless Sensor
• Fiber Optic , Optical Path Design
• Robotic and Automation

Award and Honors
• Highly Commended Award Winner, Industrial Robotic Journal, Vol.35 No.4, 2008.
• Emerald Group Publishing Limited , England.
• Award SEPO Thailand: Outstanding Innovation Award (2016).
• 22 papers in the international conferences, 10 journal articles, 1 book
• Joint Management Committee of Engineering Institute of Thailand
• Adjunct Faculty of Asian Institute Of Technology (AIT), School Of Engineering and Technology.
• The luminaries funding committee: Office for Educational Technology Development Fund. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education

Ila Gokarn is a Software Solutions Engineer with Arista Networks. She specialises in Arista software platforms, scripting, and automation technologies. Prior to joining Arista, Ila was a software solutions lead at Cisco focusing on delivering solutions to customers interested in software platform approaches to big data, hyper-distributed computing, smart cities, virtualisation, and cloud platforms.

A resident of Singapore, Ila holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and a second major in Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Aftab Siddiqui is associated with Internet Society as Technical Engagement Manager in the Asia Pacific region, he is also part of the Deploy 360 initiative. He role is to engage with network operators, enterprises, governments, developers, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and other diverse users to encourage deployment of new Internet technologies.

Before joining ISOC he was the Cheif Technologist of an Australian System Integrator, Eintellego Networks. He is based in Sydney, Australia. He is an active member of the internet community in the region.

You can reach out to him via email siddiqui@isoc.org or via Twitter @aftabsiddiqui

Nishal is an Internet Analyst at Packet Clearing House (PCH), working primarily in the Middle East and African region. He has established, worked with, and continuously supports Network Operator Groups (NOGs) across the globe, promoting self-development through the Internet.

Nishal is also the general manager for the community-run Internet Exchange Points (INXes) for South Africa. Both from a technical and policy background, Nishal has been involved in developing interconnections and Internet Exchange Points across the globe, and now adds those years of experience to Africa's largest peering points.

He's been CTO, and Senior Project Manager: Global Infrastructure, for AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for Africa, and has worked in several roles at Internet Solutions, South Africa's largest corporate ISP, growing their infrastructure to a multinational service provider, operating across 4 continents during his 12 year working stint there.

Nishal is passionate about transferring knowledge to developing countries. He has been a long-term volunteer instructor for the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) for more than a decade, and routinely teaches at NOGs around the globe.

Chalermpol Charnsripinyo is currently a senior specialist and the head of Internet Innovation Laboratory at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) under National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand. He is also working with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) in drafting national digital economy plan and driving the digital economy policy. Dr. Chalermpol has participated in Internet development in Thailand since 1992. He is a founding member of Thailand IPv6 Association, and Thailand Research Education Network (ThaiREN) Association. He has been also involved in several national ICT projects and international network infrastructure projects in the past 20+ years.

Wuth is an Engineering Expert at True Internet Corporation Company limited. He is responsible for International Bandwidth Planning including True Mobile, True Broadband and True Corporate customers. Besides that he also involved in many strategic ICT project.

He has been working in IT over 20 years in various technology and very familiar with International environment and multi-culture (Europe & Asia).

He had more than 23 years of working in IT Industry with Infrastructure and Network Operations Management, familiar with and certified for the International standard of IT operations such as ITIL, ITSM, BCCE etc. He has experiences working with multinational company and also with leading enterprise in many industries such as banking & finance, automobile, insurance and telecommunications. He also has business consulting background who understands the linkage between technology and business points of view.

Work History

- 2008 - Present : Researcher at Bangkok University Research Center.

- 2018 - Present : Executive Director & Assistant Secretary General at The Telecommunications Association of Thailand under the Royal Patronage (TCT)

- 2012 - Present : Sub-Committee at The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC)

- 2017 - Present : Committee Member at The Engineering Institute of Thailand under H.M.The King's Patronage (EIT)

- 2017 - Present : Sub-Committee at Thai Network Information Center Foundation (THNic)

- 2018 - Present : Sub-Committee at The National Press Council of Thailand

Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source Internet software including BIND 8, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first commercial anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). In 2018, he cofounded SIE Europe UG, a breakthrough European data sharing collective to fight cybercrime. Dr. Vixie earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS and DNSSEC in 2010.

Nitipong Boon-long is the Commercial Director at SUPERNAP Thailand. He is in charge of overall Sales and Marketing activities to drive growth in Thailand and APAC as well as managing the relationships with clients to help achieving the most effective digital transformation journey.

Prior to joining SUPERNAP Thailand, Nitipong has held various leadership positions from Product Development to International Sales and Marketing in APAC with leading Mobile Operators and International Carriers. With over 20 years of extensive experiences, he has helped provided excellent Data services ranging from wholesale to enterprise solutions including Cloud, IOT, Big Data, and Network solutions.

Nitipong has a Doctorate Degree in Industrial Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in United States and Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Kasetsart University in Thailand.

Thein Myint Khine is founder and CEO of Myanmar Internet Exchange (MMIX). Khine is an Industrial Advisor and she has over 20 years of professional experience in IT field. She joined the field in 1994 since after she achieved Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering. As of November 2000, she earned the IT Professional Certificates of Microsoft & Cisco. In 2013, she achieved CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert). Based on more than 15 Years' Experience in Internet Service Providers Environment, Khine could coordinate Industrial friends and set up the first Myanmar Internet Exchange.

Mr. Martin J. Levy holds a Distinguished Engineer position at Cloudflare, a global company based in San Francisco, California. Mr. Levy has been involved in the operational world of TCP/IP for more nearly 40 years and has spent nearly half of that time focused on the well being of Internet backbones, peering and efficient distribution of content.

Mr. Levy worked at the prestigious Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 80’s with a career revolved around the early days of deploying TCP/IP, DNS and routing protocols on Unix boxes. He has since worked on both early TCP/IP application development along with building global IP networks from the mid 90’s to mid 2000’s. Mr. Levy is mainly known for his dedication and unrelenting pursuit of the deployment of IPv6 within the global Internet. This is well documented online. In March 2014 he joined Cloudflare.

Mr. Levy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing and Cybernetics from the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK 1978). He was born in London, England and has traveled extensively throughout his life. He now resides in California and has done so for well over half his life. He’s a UK/US dual citizen.

Paul Wilson has nearly 30 years’ involvement with the Internet, including 20 years as the Director General of APNIC, the Regional Internet address Registry for the Asia Pacific. In this role, he has led APNIC’s development as a provider of critical Internet services and as a key contributor to Internet growth and development throughout the Asia Pacific. Mr Wilson has worked as an expert and leader across the full range of communities and organisations involved in Internet development, including ISPs and network operators, non-profit organisations, governments and governmental agencies; and with many key organisations including RIRs, IETF, ICANN, ISOC, APEC-TEL, ITU and others.

As the Chief Technology Officer of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), David Conrad is at the heart the organization's mission to help maintain the security, resiliency and stability of the Internet's system of unique identifiers that ICANN helps coordinate. Prior to being named CTO, Conrad held several different positions at ICANN, including Vice President of Infrastructure & Technology and General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Before joining ICANN, Conrad helped found a number of Internet startups, including Nominum, a firm focused on Internet name and address management products and services and was involved in the creation of the second Regional Internet Registry (RIR), Asia Pacific Network Information Center, the Internet address allocator for the Asia and Pacific Rim region.

In 2011, Conrad provided senior-level advice and technical input for CloudFlare, as a member of the organization's technical staff. Prior to that, Conrad was the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium during the development of the "BIND version 9" domain name server. He was also the seventh employee at the Internet Initiative Japan Corporation in Tokyo, and has held a number of software and infrastructure research and development positions throughout his career.

Kams Yeung is a Principal Network Architect at Akamai Technologies, the world largest CDN. Kams has responsibilities primarily covering peering, routed interconnections and capacity planning.

Kams is a 18 years’ experience veteran of the Internet industry and an international network engineering, operations and data center professional. He has served as an infrastructure team member during APRICOT-APAN 2011.

Before Akamai, Kams was Product Manager at Equinix, and Senior Manager, IP Engineering at Pacnet. He is a regular supporter of APRICOT, APNIC, APF, and other industry community gatherings.

Associate Prof. Dr. Panjai Tantatsanawong is an Associate Professor of Computing department, Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University, Thailand. Currently, he is Chairperson of the Thailand Research Education Network Association (ThaiREN). He has been a Deputy Director of the Office of Information Technology Administration for Education Development (UniNet), Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education. With these administrative positions, he has been instrumental in developing, implementing and administrating the TEIN projects in Thailand.

Recent Project Management Experiences

NREN: UniNet and ThaiREN

Applied Virtual Reality System for the National Historical Park and Museum

e-Culture Development in Greater Mekhong Sub-region Phase I and Phase II

Intangible Culture Information Management System development in Greater Mekhong Sub-region

Living Ankor Road

Medical Grid

Therdtoon Theerasasana – Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems (Thailand) Ltd. He has more than 25 years experience in consulting, designing, deploying, lecturing and troubleshooting many Enterprise, Public Sector, Education, and Service Provider networks. He specializes in IP routing, IP Multicast, IPv6, MPLS, Cable Modem, Data Center, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Service Provider’s related Technologies.

Therdtoon joined Cisco Systems in 2000 as a customer support engineer at Cisco TAC, Sydney, Australia. He is currently holding Technical Solutions Architect position and responsible for Thailand and Indochina regions.

He also holds three CCIE Certifications, Routing & Switching, ISP Dial and Service Provider.

Therdtoon has bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering (2nd Class honours) from KMITL. Before joining Cisco, He was the Technical Support Engineer at Dimension Data Thailand for 3 years and Technical Manager at NetOne Network Solution for 5 years.

Takeshi (George) Matsuda has breadth of experience in service providers. His career started with operation of the largest Internet Exchange (IX) in Japan. He architects and develops network and system of Japanese ISP (AS4713, OCN), especially focusing on IPv6 transition technology. He used to work for POP design and expansion strategy, especially in Asia, at the global tier-1 ISP (AS2914, Global IP Network). He is currently working intensively on software development to evolve system architecture for ISP operation.

Arnold Nipper is Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) and Co-Founder of DE-CIX. Before that he served as DE-CIX’ CTO/COO for more than 15 years. Since 12/2008 Arnold is involved in PeeringDB and since PeeringDB being an association he is Director of PeeringDB as well. Since 01/2019 Arnold is a Director of Open-IX. Until 11/2016 Arnold also was Director of Euro-IX.

Arnold Nipper is one of the Internet pioneers in Germany and has almost 30 years work experience. He was instrumental in setting up one of the first commercial ISP in Germany, was involved in setting up the DE-NIC and co-founded RIPE in 1989.

12 years of experience in both Mobile and Fixed line Telecommunication. Served in Malaysia, Brunei and now in Thailand. Handled and Headed Network Operations, Customer Management, Transport Planning, New Services and Rolls Out.

After obtaining a Doctoral degree in France, I returned to teach electrical engineering at Chulalongkorn University for 28 years. I then became an Election Commissioner for 4 years and a Registrar for 2 years at the Asian Institute of Technology. Since then I have been working at Mahidol University on Peace Building especially in the Far South of Thailand. I also serve in many civil society organisations including the THNIC Foundation as its chairman.

Surasak Sanguanpong is currently an associate professor and a head of Applied Network Research Laboratory (ANRES) at the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University, in Bangkok. He also serves as the THNIC Board of Directors and Treasurer. Prior to this role he was the Vice President for the Information Technology of Kasetsart University. He comes from a technical research background with research experiences in computer networking such as Internet Security, Network Monitoring and Measurements and Applications for High Speed Networking.

Philip Smith has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s after catching the Internet bug in the mid 1980s while at University. He runs his own consulting company, PFS Internet Development.

Philip spends some of his time working for the Network Startup Resource Centre as a Senior Network Engineer and Training Coordinator, assisting with Network Operations Groups coordination, and providing network design assistance and training around the Pacific, South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

He previously worked at APNIC as Learning and Development Director, where his team's responsibilities ranged from Training, APNIC Conferences and Events, Network Operations Group support, Technical Programmes such as IPv6 Deployment, Internet Exchange Points, and Rootname Server deployments, and the Information Society Innovation Fund grants programme.

Before APNIC, he was a member of the Internet Infrastructure Group in CTO Consulting Engineering of Cisco Systems for more than thirteen years. He also served for 3 years on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (incorporated into UUNET, and now part of Verizon's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial ISP, where he was Head of Network Engineering. As is common with startups in a rapidly growing marketplace, Philip gained deep experience in all of the engineering roles in an ISP, from support engineer, network operations, engineering, and development, before assuming responsibility for the entire UK network operation. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and he helped establish the LINX Internet Exchange Point in London and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.

Over the last decade and a half, Philip has been actively involved in providing consultation and advice to ISPs primarily in the Asia Pacific region, but also to other providers around the world. He concentrates specifically on network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as configuration, scaling, and training. He has played a major role in training ISP engineers, co-founding the Cisco ISP/IXP Workshop programme, and providing ISP training and tutorials at many network operations events around the world, including NANOG, RIPE, APNIC, SANOG, MENOG, AfNOG, PacNOG and APRICOT conferences. His other key technology interests include IPv6, BGP, OSPF and IS-IS, and network performance and data analysis.

He has also been working to promote and develop the Internet in the entire Asia Pacific region and has been actively involved in bringing the Internet to some countries in the region. He also is actively involved in establishing Internet Exchange Points around the world, as well as advising on peering and inter-ISP relationships across the industry. He is Chair of the Board Directors of APIA (the Asia Pacific Internet Association), the organisation which organises and manages APRICOT, the region's annual ISP operations and technology conference and co-chair of APOPS (the region's ISP operational forum). Philip is also involved in the organisation committees of MENOG, SANOG and PacNOG, helps out with several country NOGs, and is a past chair and member of the NANOG Steering Committee (now NANOG Board).

Philip also has a particular research interest in the growth of the Internet and provides a detailed daily analysis of the IPv4 routing table, from an Asia Pacific perspective, to the general operator community worldwide.

Philip is a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. A native of Scotland, he lives in Brisbane, Australia.

He is now the head of government and industry relations at Ericsson

Jesada Sivaraks received the B.E. degrees, in Telecommunications Engineering from KMITL, Thailand in 1990. He graduated M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Working experience, he joined the military information department of Supreme Command Armed force in 1991-1994. In year 2001, he was the principal Engineer at Protura Wireless, Half Moon Bay, California with 3 patent pending at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). He involved various fields of wireless communication such as designing the antenna for mobile phone and setting the method of hand/head effect to mobile terminal.

He has joined to TOT as engineer of International Telecommunications. Also, he was one of the 3G Strategy Team in 2004-2007 and with the Wireless Business group at TOT. Now, he takes care of the business strategy of TOT’s Wireless business group. Moreover, he has been invited to be the special Guest speaker or instructor in various classes of Graduate students in many universities.

He was the Secretary to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission Vice Chairman. As the regulator role, he is member of variety sub commission such as the sub commission of preparation for 2.1GHz Spectrum auction, the sub commission of preparation for 1800MHz Spectrum, the sub commission of mobile spectrum roadmap, the sub commission of framework of Thailand satellite licensing, etc..

Matt is Edge Strategy Manager at Facebook responsible for the Asia Pacific region based in Hong Kong. In this role he looks after peering & caching relationships, building and maintaining long term partnerships with the networks in the region helping Facebook to make the world more open and connected :)

Before joining Facebook Matt was Senior Network Architect at Akamai and Peering Manager at Cable&Wireless Worldwide, with a long time focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Tashi has experience in IP and transmission network design, operation, and maintenance having worked as a transmission engineer and IP core network engineer for more than a decade. He has been involved in capacity development in the APNIC community by providing technical assistance and training in number of technical areas such as Routing & Switching, Network Architecture, IXP design and deployment, Network Security, IPv6 deployment, DNSSEC, and so on.

Tashi completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Electronics engineering from India, complemented by research studies in next generation networks from Japan and postgraduate studies in Network Systems from Australia.

Panita Pongpaibool is a senior researcher at NECTEC (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center), THAILAND. She led a research team that developed the IoT cloud platform, named NETPIE. NETPIE is widely adopted and has become a de facto platform for Thai education and maker communities. At the end of 2017, her research team incorporated a startup company, NEXPIE, dedicated to providing commercial IoT platform services. Panita is now an advisor of NEXPIE. In this talk she will explain the landscape of IoT platform, technical challenges and business opportunities.

Kohei Kitade joined NTT 2004 after graduate from Kobe university in Japan. Currently he works as a Senior Architect for Network Technology at NTT Communications. He has extensive experience in developing network services for service providers and enterprises as well. He is responsible for developing the Internet backbone and services of global and the domestic IP networks for NTT. Especially in Asia, he has developed some POPs and services. And he worked for lots of Academic network also.

Champika is the ICANN's Regional Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Engagement Manager for the Asia Pacific. He is part of ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) and SSR Teams and represents ICANN in Security, Technical, Law Enforcement and Capacity Building forums in the APAC region.

Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist and liaison roles at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. Champika started his career with IBM Corporation as a Systems Engineer and later worked in IT industry, academia, research, and training environments in the Asia Pacific. Champika received a number of excellence awards during his academic and professional careers and also served in various technical community groups and committees.

Secretary of the Working Group for lifelong learning.

Assistant Secretary the Working Group for integration and support the work of the Ministry of Digital Economy.

Secretary of the provide computer systems for government.

Secretary of the Executive Committee and provide computer systems of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.

Committee and Expert of the Executive Committee and provide computer systems of the Ministry of Interior.

Vice chairman of the Committee set detail the features computer systems and equipment for teaching, Fiscal year 2013.

Research Operations Manager
Brownien Lab (http://www.brownien_lab.cattelecom.com/index.php)
Research and Development Department
CAT Telecom PCL (headquarter)

Education:
Federal Armed Forces University, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Munich, Germany
- Dr. -Ing., Doctoral degrees in engineering
- Research Topic: Object Manipulation and Force Control by Using Tactile Sensors

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
- M. Eng., Computer Engineering
- Thesis Topic: Cooperation of Multiple Robot Arms By Kinematic-Coordinate Transformation Distribution
- Scholarship Donor: Royal Thai Government (RTG)

King Mongkut’s Institute Of Techonology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand
- B.Eng., Telecommunication Engineering
- Thesis Topic: G3 Facsimile Protocol Analyzer
- 1st Class Honors, Class Rank 1
- Scholarship Donor: first position in entrance exam.

Work Experiences:
- Intelligent Robot Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, University of Federal Armed Forces, Germany;
- Siemens Automotive Company, Germany; solutions and services for automotive production
- Dallmeier Electronic Company, Germany; image processing and recording, the CCTV monitoring field,
image transmission
- Brownien Lab, R&D Department, CAT Telecom PCL, Thailand

Research Interests
• Machine Vision
• SDR , FPGA , Wireless Sensor
• Fiber Optic , Optical Path Design
• Robotic and Automation

Award and Honors
• Highly Commended Award Winner, Industrial Robotic Journal, Vol.35 No.4, 2008.
• Emerald Group Publishing Limited , England.
• Award SEPO Thailand: Outstanding Innovation Award (2016).
• 22 papers in the international conferences, 10 journal articles, 1 book
• Joint Management Committee of Engineering Institute of Thailand
• Adjunct Faculty of Asian Institute Of Technology (AIT), School Of Engineering and Technology.
• The luminaries funding committee: Office for Educational Technology Development Fund. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education

Ila Gokarn is a Software Solutions Engineer with Arista Networks. She specialises in Arista software platforms, scripting, and automation technologies. Prior to joining Arista, Ila was a software solutions lead at Cisco focusing on delivering solutions to customers interested in software platform approaches to big data, hyper-distributed computing, smart cities, virtualisation, and cloud platforms.

A resident of Singapore, Ila holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and a second major in Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Aftab Siddiqui is associated with Internet Society as Technical Engagement Manager in the Asia Pacific region, he is also part of the Deploy 360 initiative. He role is to engage with network operators, enterprises, governments, developers, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and other diverse users to encourage deployment of new Internet technologies.

Before joining ISOC he was the Cheif Technologist of an Australian System Integrator, Eintellego Networks. He is based in Sydney, Australia. He is an active member of the internet community in the region.

You can reach out to him via email siddiqui@isoc.org or via Twitter @aftabsiddiqui

Nishal is an Internet Analyst at Packet Clearing House (PCH), working primarily in the Middle East and African region. He has established, worked with, and continuously supports Network Operator Groups (NOGs) across the globe, promoting self-development through the Internet.

Nishal is also the general manager for the community-run Internet Exchange Points (INXes) for South Africa. Both from a technical and policy background, Nishal has been involved in developing interconnections and Internet Exchange Points across the globe, and now adds those years of experience to Africa's largest peering points.

He's been CTO, and Senior Project Manager: Global Infrastructure, for AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for Africa, and has worked in several roles at Internet Solutions, South Africa's largest corporate ISP, growing their infrastructure to a multinational service provider, operating across 4 continents during his 12 year working stint there.

Nishal is passionate about transferring knowledge to developing countries. He has been a long-term volunteer instructor for the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) for more than a decade, and routinely teaches at NOGs around the globe.

Chalermpol Charnsripinyo is currently a senior specialist and the head of Internet Innovation Laboratory at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) under National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand. He is also working with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) in drafting national digital economy plan and driving the digital economy policy. Dr. Chalermpol has participated in Internet development in Thailand since 1992. He is a founding member of Thailand IPv6 Association, and Thailand Research Education Network (ThaiREN) Association. He has been also involved in several national ICT projects and international network infrastructure projects in the past 20+ years.

Wuth is an Engineering Expert at True Internet Corporation Company limited. He is responsible for International Bandwidth Planning including True Mobile, True Broadband and True Corporate customers. Besides that he also involved in many strategic ICT project.

He has been working in IT over 20 years in various technology and very familiar with International environment and multi-culture (Europe & Asia).

He had more than 23 years of working in IT Industry with Infrastructure and Network Operations Management, familiar with and certified for the International standard of IT operations such as ITIL, ITSM, BCCE etc. He has experiences working with multinational company and also with leading enterprise in many industries such as banking & finance, automobile, insurance and telecommunications. He also has business consulting background who understands the linkage between technology and business points of view.

Work History

- 2008 - Present : Researcher at Bangkok University Research Center.

- 2018 - Present : Executive Director & Assistant Secretary General at The Telecommunications Association of Thailand under the Royal Patronage (TCT)

- 2012 - Present : Sub-Committee at The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC)

- 2017 - Present : Committee Member at The Engineering Institute of Thailand under H.M.The King's Patronage (EIT)

- 2017 - Present : Sub-Committee at Thai Network Information Center Foundation (THNic)

- 2018 - Present : Sub-Committee at The National Press Council of Thailand

Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source Internet software including BIND 8, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first commercial anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). In 2018, he cofounded SIE Europe UG, a breakthrough European data sharing collective to fight cybercrime. Dr. Vixie earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS and DNSSEC in 2010.

Nitipong Boon-long is the Commercial Director at SUPERNAP Thailand. He is in charge of overall Sales and Marketing activities to drive growth in Thailand and APAC as well as managing the relationships with clients to help achieving the most effective digital transformation journey.

Prior to joining SUPERNAP Thailand, Nitipong has held various leadership positions from Product Development to International Sales and Marketing in APAC with leading Mobile Operators and International Carriers. With over 20 years of extensive experiences, he has helped provided excellent Data services ranging from wholesale to enterprise solutions including Cloud, IOT, Big Data, and Network solutions.

Nitipong has a Doctorate Degree in Industrial Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in United States and Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Kasetsart University in Thailand.

Thein Myint Khine is founder and CEO of Myanmar Internet Exchange (MMIX). Khine is an Industrial Advisor and she has over 20 years of professional experience in IT field. She joined the field in 1994 since after she achieved Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering. As of November 2000, she earned the IT Professional Certificates of Microsoft & Cisco. In 2013, she achieved CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert). Based on more than 15 Years' Experience in Internet Service Providers Environment, Khine could coordinate Industrial friends and set up the first Myanmar Internet Exchange.

Mr. Martin J. Levy holds a Distinguished Engineer position at Cloudflare, a global company based in San Francisco, California. Mr. Levy has been involved in the operational world of TCP/IP for more nearly 40 years and has spent nearly half of that time focused on the well being of Internet backbones, peering and efficient distribution of content.

Mr. Levy worked at the prestigious Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 80’s with a career revolved around the early days of deploying TCP/IP, DNS and routing protocols on Unix boxes. He has since worked on both early TCP/IP application development along with building global IP networks from the mid 90’s to mid 2000’s. Mr. Levy is mainly known for his dedication and unrelenting pursuit of the deployment of IPv6 within the global Internet. This is well documented online. In March 2014 he joined Cloudflare.

Mr. Levy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing and Cybernetics from the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK 1978). He was born in London, England and has traveled extensively throughout his life. He now resides in California and has done so for well over half his life. He’s a UK/US dual citizen.

Paul Wilson has nearly 30 years’ involvement with the Internet, including 20 years as the Director General of APNIC, the Regional Internet address Registry for the Asia Pacific. In this role, he has led APNIC’s development as a provider of critical Internet services and as a key contributor to Internet growth and development throughout the Asia Pacific. Mr Wilson has worked as an expert and leader across the full range of communities and organisations involved in Internet development, including ISPs and network operators, non-profit organisations, governments and governmental agencies; and with many key organisations including RIRs, IETF, ICANN, ISOC, APEC-TEL, ITU and others.

As the Chief Technology Officer of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), David Conrad is at the heart the organization's mission to help maintain the security, resiliency and stability of the Internet's system of unique identifiers that ICANN helps coordinate. Prior to being named CTO, Conrad held several different positions at ICANN, including Vice President of Infrastructure & Technology and General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Before joining ICANN, Conrad helped found a number of Internet startups, including Nominum, a firm focused on Internet name and address management products and services and was involved in the creation of the second Regional Internet Registry (RIR), Asia Pacific Network Information Center, the Internet address allocator for the Asia and Pacific Rim region.

In 2011, Conrad provided senior-level advice and technical input for CloudFlare, as a member of the organization's technical staff. Prior to that, Conrad was the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium during the development of the "BIND version 9" domain name server. He was also the seventh employee at the Internet Initiative Japan Corporation in Tokyo, and has held a number of software and infrastructure research and development positions throughout his career.

Kams Yeung is a Principal Network Architect at Akamai Technologies, the world largest CDN. Kams has responsibilities primarily covering peering, routed interconnections and capacity planning.

Kams is a 18 years’ experience veteran of the Internet industry and an international network engineering, operations and data center professional. He has served as an infrastructure team member during APRICOT-APAN 2011.

Before Akamai, Kams was Product Manager at Equinix, and Senior Manager, IP Engineering at Pacnet. He is a regular supporter of APRICOT, APNIC, APF, and other industry community gatherings.

Associate Prof. Dr. Panjai Tantatsanawong is an Associate Professor of Computing department, Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University, Thailand. Currently, he is Chairperson of the Thailand Research Education Network Association (ThaiREN). He has been a Deputy Director of the Office of Information Technology Administration for Education Development (UniNet), Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education. With these administrative positions, he has been instrumental in developing, implementing and administrating the TEIN projects in Thailand.

Recent Project Management Experiences

NREN: UniNet and ThaiREN

Applied Virtual Reality System for the National Historical Park and Museum

e-Culture Development in Greater Mekhong Sub-region Phase I and Phase II

Intangible Culture Information Management System development in Greater Mekhong Sub-region

Living Ankor Road

Medical Grid

Therdtoon Theerasasana – Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems (Thailand) Ltd. He has more than 25 years experience in consulting, designing, deploying, lecturing and troubleshooting many Enterprise, Public Sector, Education, and Service Provider networks. He specializes in IP routing, IP Multicast, IPv6, MPLS, Cable Modem, Data Center, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Service Provider’s related Technologies.

Therdtoon joined Cisco Systems in 2000 as a customer support engineer at Cisco TAC, Sydney, Australia. He is currently holding Technical Solutions Architect position and responsible for Thailand and Indochina regions.

He also holds three CCIE Certifications, Routing & Switching, ISP Dial and Service Provider.

Therdtoon has bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering (2nd Class honours) from KMITL. Before joining Cisco, He was the Technical Support Engineer at Dimension Data Thailand for 3 years and Technical Manager at NetOne Network Solution for 5 years.

Takeshi (George) Matsuda has breadth of experience in service providers. His career started with operation of the largest Internet Exchange (IX) in Japan. He architects and develops network and system of Japanese ISP (AS4713, OCN), especially focusing on IPv6 transition technology. He used to work for POP design and expansion strategy, especially in Asia, at the global tier-1 ISP (AS2914, Global IP Network). He is currently working intensively on software development to evolve system architecture for ISP operation.

Arnold Nipper is Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) and Co-Founder of DE-CIX. Before that he served as DE-CIX’ CTO/COO for more than 15 years. Since 12/2008 Arnold is involved in PeeringDB and since PeeringDB being an association he is Director of PeeringDB as well. Since 01/2019 Arnold is a Director of Open-IX. Until 11/2016 Arnold also was Director of Euro-IX.

Arnold Nipper is one of the Internet pioneers in Germany and has almost 30 years work experience. He was instrumental in setting up one of the first commercial ISP in Germany, was involved in setting up the DE-NIC and co-founded RIPE in 1989.

12 years of experience in both Mobile and Fixed line Telecommunication. Served in Malaysia, Brunei and now in Thailand. Handled and Headed Network Operations, Customer Management, Transport Planning, New Services and Rolls Out.

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The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) is a not-for-profit, membership-based service organization. As one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), APNIC is responsible for managing, distributing, and registering Internet number resources such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and Autonomous System (AS) numbers within the Asia Pacific region. As part of this service, APNIC is responsible for maintaining the public APNIC Whois Database and managing reverse DNS zone delegations. It also provides forums for Internet policy development that is bottom up and open to everyone. APNIC also provides technical training and education on Internet infrastructure development, supports Internet community events including APRICOT and regional NOG meetings, produces leading Internet research results, and assists in the development of critical infrastructure such as DNS root servers and Internet exchange points (IXPs).

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Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 98 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

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Triple T Broadband Public Company Limited, one of the leaders in Nationwide Internet Service Provider, under the brand “3BB”. As a subsidiary of Jasmine International Group, Triple T Broadband Plc. is a telecommunication expert with long time experience. 3BB has established the nationwide infrastructure of optical fiber network. We, 3BB, have the latest technology and equipment installed in our network, and especially designed for internet service. Apply for 3BB service at all 3BB shops or 3BB agents throughout Thailand or contact our Call Center 1530. Visit us at http://www.3bb.co.th/.

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ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address into your computer or other device – a name or a number. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation and a community with participants from all over the world. For more information, please visit: www.icann.org[icann.org]

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T.C.C. Technology Co., Ltd. (TCCtech) is a member of TCC Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Thailand. TCCtech is the Carrier-Neutral Data Center Services Provider under TCC Technology Group, which consists of T.C.C. Technology Co., Ltd., Leap Solutions Asia Co., Ltd. and Shinasub Co., Ltd. TCC Technology Group is the first & only triple-certified SAP Hosting services/ SAP Cloud services/ SAP Hana services Partner in Thailand. TCCtech has strong collaboration with selected global partners e.g. the recognition as Microsoft Certified Partner, etc. TCCtech currently operates not only highly secured multiple world-class Cloud-Enabled Data Centers in downtown Bangkok and the city’s eastern suburbs, but also offers industrial and international data centers solutions via its Asia Data Center Alliance (ADCA) network in 5 countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

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Founded in November 2001, Throughwave (Thailand) had a vision to become a leading IT infrastructure partner to enable Thailand and regional business organizations to compete and succeed in their IT strategies. Throughwave is specialized in helping customers and partners building high performance network and IT infrastructure solutions. Throughwave (Thailand) is part of Throughwave group, a family of IT infrastructure solutions companies.

At Throughwave (Thailand), we offer IT infrastructure products designed to increase the reliability, performance, and security of customer infrastructure. Throughwave (Thailand) is an IT infrastructure distribution company. We have connected technology solution providers with resellers in South East Asia region, bringing the latest products and services to market and finding new ways to bring value to our customers. The company offers a broad array of world class high performance network and security solutions and services.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology.

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NTT Communications is a leader global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and part the NTT Group, a top 100 ranked corporation in the Fortune Global 500. We provide consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal OneTM VPN network reaching 196 countries/region, and 140 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT group companies including Dimension Data. NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.

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Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, we have established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-toend solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services. Our ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. With 180,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information society, and building a Better Connected World.

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We believe that our technologies will help you to transform your business. INET is a service provider of ICT infrastructure, we offer full scope services ranging from network connectivity, consulting services, system design & integration, Data center and Cloud Computing Solutions which guaranteed by the quality of international standard CSA-STAR & ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Cloud Security, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 Cloud service Management, ISO 22301:2012 Cloud IaaS Business Continuity Management, and many of world class awards guaranteed. Contact us at : 02-257-7000.

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Akamai is the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer, enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere.